@JesusIsLord0405 Which particular issues are you unsure about/which are the ones you're most concerned about?
I will pray for you and hope you can get through this.
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Fionn O'Donovan
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Fionn O'Donovan
@FODonovan
I'm a Philosophy Lecturer at the University of Winchester with interests in Ethics and Politics. https://t.co/AtexEkrTbG
Southampton Katılım Kasım 2010
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Ngl I’m struggling bad with the Faith atm Please pray for me
The state of the Catholic Church in Germany is slowly killing my faith. Idk how I’m supposed to survive this.
Also, I started to doubt the Magisterium on multiple issues, including some core teachings of Catholicism.
I’m scared rn
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It is precisely *because* we use such contrasts to demonstrate conceptual understanding that, when we see the AI doing this, we get the impression that the AI understands.
But the ability to parrot a definition/basic conceptual or trivial truths is not particularly impressive.
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I appreciate the value of some contrasts for the sake of clarification. We say what things are not to clarify what they are. But the AI presents these humble clarifications as though they were substantive, interesting theses - which they are not.
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One of the problems with AI writing at the moment:
"A is not B or C, it's D".
It's an over-used sentence structure. Worse, the mention of B and C is usually pointless. It is usually trivial that A is not B/C, and no serious person or thinker will have ever said A is B or C.
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What appears to me quite dangerous here is that, particularly in cases of young people who have a lot of potential to change/adjust their character and behaviour, we may be giving up far too early.
It is not humane to prematurely conclude that someone is unsavable.
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Some distinctions:
-Someone can certainly *feel* they are at a dead end.
-Whether they in fact *are* at such a dead end is another matter.
-If some kind of treatment/cure has even a small chance of working, what then? How would we know that no treatment could work?
Jade Stanton@jadethebpdcoach
“The patient described his life as ‘joyless’. He felt very lonely, was deeply unhappy and derived no enjoyment from anything. He was unable to connect with peers and find where he fit in in society, and felt misunderstood by others. He was troubled by the fact that he could see his peers developing while he was unable to put his capabilities to use, and had reached a dead end.” No teenager has reached a “dead end” with their autism, anxiety, depression, or mood disorder. That’s not a thing.
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It seems like, after 11 years, many of Trump's fans are finally realising how dangerous and unfit for office he has been all along.
11 years too late, I'm afraid.
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This is a really excellent quiz. It teaches the important lesson that, by carefully doctoring questions and offering a very limited range of answers, you can force people into whatever philosophical or ideological pigeonhole you like.
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It's disappointing that the left tends to misunderstand how wars can be ended.
Negotiations are, ofc, part of the story, but most leverage for negotiation is earned on the battlefield. In reality, good will alone is almost never worth anything in serious conflict-ending talks.
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman
Military historian here: this is a widespread but erroneous assumption, propagated by people who don’t understand war. Wars are won by winning them, in most cases by bringing about the military defeat of the enemy. And, by the way, if you think that Iran was going to give up its millenarian fantasies because of a deal with Oman, you don’t understand jihad and shouldn’t be the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
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@_markpetchey Alcaraz is different level to Sinner honestly. 3 more GS, 2 years younger. More well-rounded.
Peak Stan vs. Alcaraz would be close. I think it's a nightmare matchup for Stan. Alcaraz's defence is unreal and he would use net play/drop shots to his advantage imo
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To say that Prime Big 4 wasn’t as good as Alcaraz/Sinner, is like saying Prime Mike Tyson would have lost to Anthony Joshua.
It’s pure conjecture but essentially click bait because trust me, Prime Stan wins vs Alcaraz/Sinner.
No one peaked like Stan.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion but that doesn’t mean the opinion is correct.
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Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...
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The BBC reports 160,000 confirmed Russian losses in Ukraine to date.
Even from a strictly Russian nationalist point of view, how can this be worth it?
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@BishopPair Another thing to do would be to have an honest and long conversation with a smart left-wing friend of yours, if you have one who you think would be open to it
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@BishopPair Maybe Nathan J. Robinson is the one who does the best job?
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@BishopPair I think the intellectual current is definitely shifting to the right (not just on here). This makes me suspicious that the shift is entirely a rational one, but it also means there are few people doing solid work defending leftist views (unless I'm missing stuff).
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It all coheres pretty well... not that coherence is necessarily a sign of likely truthfulness!
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My philosophical positions:
Ontology: Realist
Epistemology: Common-sense/anti-skeptical/contextualist
Philosophy of Religion: Classical Theism
Theology: Catholic
Politics: Social Democracy, somewhat anti-liberal
Moral Philosophy: Thomistic Virtue Ethics
Meta-ethics: Naturalism
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